distribution

It seems like the combination of drupal.org/git and Open Atrium is a good start. With that we can share code, document issues, and document the project.
The missing piece in my mind is how to collaborate on live sites before committing work to code.

Use cases:
* Clone - clone from other developers
* Share - share your development sites with others
* Collaborate - work on a single site with other developers simultaneously
* git pull - clone site from distribution releases and dev code
* Open Source - Can you run it on your own server?

Hosting options:

I came across this distribution in the Science Applications group. It seems to be primarily focused on creating communities of biomedical researchers and fostering research collaboration.

Un nuevo episodio del super podcast de drupal, esta vez platicamos con Juan Camilo Lema, Colombiano que vive en Peru y que esta muy metido en el negocio de las estrategias de comunicación, de distribuciones, de como vender drupal, no vendiendo Drupal, también platicamos sobre redes sociales, facebook, google plus.

Los invitamos a escuchar este nuevo podcast y comentarnos que les parece!

http://www.poderato.com/superpodcastdrupal/super-podcast-de-drupal/comun...

An initial build of ELMS: Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE) was released today. The focus of CLE is two fold. The first component is to allow students to collaborate, critique, rate, and comment on each other's assignments / media. This is known as an "Open Studio" concept in the arts and we've tried to mirror it in some of our courses previously.

I wanted to announce here that a Public demo of the new version of ELMS (Alpha 3) can now be accessed at the following address: http://demo.elms.psu.edu/

Alpha 3 is still slated to be released by the end of the March but I wanted to get a demo out ahead of that for some additional feedback. Also, I felt the need to provide some optimism as a reaction to this post in the higher education group.

In this thread the question is asked if a music distribution or separate modules is the best way to achieve turn key functionality needed for a music site. The answer, I believe, is an alternative path.

The alternative path is to abstract things out into an application layer, with Features. There is lots of info about Features on the project page (and it shares some ideas with the now defunct Patterns module), but conceptually this graphic sums it up best:

Having had some experience working with Features this year, I can tell you it is pretty raw. A Feature has hooks and functions to turn on and off things on your site. At its simplest, it will turn on a few modules and change a few defaults. At its most complex, it will need to manually override database variables. It's messy development and takes time. But the real beauty is that it allows developers to focus on functionality instead of technicality. It also allows independent development of features that, combined, can achieve something that looks like a distribution. And for the user, they don't need to know how it works, they just need to know what it can do.

We are lucky, since we have already identified some useful features needed for an art & music Drupal site / mobile application, and perhaps the next step is to refine and prioritize the list.

Several years in the making, a distribution of ELMS is finally ready for feedback and public consumption. It's still an alpha so I wouldn't use it in a production environment but it's a good look at the direction of the ELMS distribution. ELMS has grown a lot since it was first brought up here but it's goal has remained the same: Lower the cost of entry for the creation of course materials.

truzZ est à la fois une plate-forme communautaire multi-sites et un extranet collaboratif, conçue pour faciliter la collaboration, le partage et la mise en page du contenu. C'est une distribution de Drupal créée par Likwid et destinée à être diffusée sous licence libre GPL.

Innovante, cohérente, générique, truzZ est l'outil rêvé pour les communautés en ligne, les entreprises à établissements multiples et les organisations structurées en fédération.

Lets add our feature wish here and discuss about it.